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) In 1929 a small company by the name of
_____ products emerged in British
dominated India. The intent was to spread
joy and cheer to children and adults alike,
all over the country with its sweets and
candies. A small factory was set up in the
suburbs of Mumbai, to manufacture sweets
and toffees. A decade later it was upgraded
to manufacture biscuits as well.
• For decades, their biscuit was instantly
recognized by its iconic white and yellow
wax paper wrapper.
• The name, "________ ___", is derived from
the name of the Indian rail station, ______
______, where the production factory is
PARLE-G after VILE PARLE
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• During the election campaign Indira
Gandhi, and a few others called on the
pontiff in Madanapalle (AP) where he
was camping and sought his blessings
in the election. Gandhi sought the help
of the Shankaracharya w.r.t to the
Congress (I) party founded by her after
the party's split. The beaming
Sankaracharya simply waved. There is
an other theory which proposes that it
was spotted by the former Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi, on her out-of-
power days in late of 1978, on her visit
to a small temple in Palakkad district in
Kerala. Temple is known as Hemambika
Temple, also as Sri Emoor Bhagavathi
Temple and popularly known as
Kaipathi Temple.
• The story or the belief, behind this
unique deity ,was that a girl
(incarnation of the Goddess Parvathy),
who escaped from molestation jumped
• The INC was split into the Congress
(I) and Congress (O) during the 1971
general election and the party
headed by Indira Gandhi adopted the
new election symbol, the hand, the
old one being a bullock cart with a
farmer used by the old wing.
They wrote to each other with rapturous frequency
but the most intimate letters will never be available
to scholars and historians.
Natwar singh once asked Vijaya Lakshmi, if the
rumours about X having an affair with Y were true.
She was herself a diva and uninhibited in her
conversation. She said to me: “Of course he did.
And good for him.
______ and ___ ______ had many
terms of endearment for
each other. He would call her
Pia, and she would call him
'Hey there.' They also called
each other Marilyn Monroe
and Elvis Presley.
 
They also addressed each
other 'Darlingji' in some
letters. We thought it was
very warm and an apt title
for a love story.
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• In medieval periods,the area was under the

mughals which subsequently for a brief
period was won over by armies under the
Jat king of Bharatpur. ________ has 442
villages, with main towns being Charkhi
Dadri, Loharu,and Tosham. The total area of
_____ district is 5,099 sq kms and its
population is 14,24,000. __________finds
mention in Ain-e-Akbari. It is claimed
________ was founded by the person name
Neem after his wife named Bhani.________ is
also known for its temples and is called as
small Kashi of India because of numerous
temples. Why has ______ been in the news??
• Bhiwani
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5 • X: "Nanda approached me. Czechoslovakia's price was the
lowest, second Slovakian, third was the Poland."
• Y: "Haan, Haan."
• X: "He said, 'I will give you one crore rupees in advance'."
• Y: "Okay."
• X: "You get disapproved the last one. Czechoslovakia
because they are so lower that we cannot match their
price."
• Y: "Okay."
• X: "If you can push him out. Delegation is going on to the...
delegation has been ordered to go to Czechoslovakia. Stop
this delegation, and technically reject this company. Here
are the documents."
• Y: "Hmm."
• X: "By which it's proved that this company is closed for the
last two years. They will start only after getting this
order."
• Y: "Yeah, yeah."
• X: "I will give one. And I will give you... if they are
technically disapproved, then you are my agent."
• Y: "Yeah."
• X: "For this particular... perks... and I will give you so much
of commission."
• Y: "Okay."
• X: "I said, 'Fine.' He gave me the correspondence. I took
the correspondence to G."
• Tehelka expose
 Kiran Uttam Ghosh’s collection in the 2004
Lakme India Fashion Week was labelled
_______ ______. Her collection tried to
celebrate every element where _______
is______ -- cricket, information
technology, Indian festivals and even the
stock market.

So models walked around with computer

mouses strung around their neck, fake
currency notes rolled into their hair,
embroidered Nehru caps and colourful
Bandhini ghagras reflecting the festive
mood.
7) Who is missing?
Ustad Zakir Hussain-They won the
Grammy for the World Music
Category for the compilation “Global
Drum Project”
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• ) X used to be called KB Tablets, and
used to be in Y's ayurvedic
department. Y saw that the
consumer is eating the product for
reasons other than just for its original
purpose and hence changed it to a
more palatable name—X.Recently
announced the extension of its
popular X range with the launch of a
new variant - X Pudina.Y has also
recently rolled out a new campaign
with the tagline 'X Kare Khana
Hajmola
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14)X was a cast-iron and glass

building originally erected in Hyde
Park, London, England, to house the
Great Exhibition of 1851.Designed by
Joseph Paxton, it was 1,851 feet (564
m) long, with an interior height of 108
feet (33 m).During World War I, it was
used as a naval training
establishment under the name of
HMS Victory VI, informally known as
HMS X. Y which was modelled upon X
was built in 1889.At the cessation of
hostilities X was re-opened as the
first Imperial War Museum.X was
destroyed bya fire in 1936 and thus Y
alone remains now as a result of
which Y is sometimes referred to as
the X of India. X and Y please.
X Y
10)According to Hindu law.Devotees
should always have their rightside
towards the object of worship.
Hence this activity is performed with
the worshipping deity always on the
right side of the worshipper.The
activity derives its name from the
Sanskrit word __________ which means
right. What activity?
Pradakshina
14) X’s origin is shrouded in mystery,
X isn’t mentioned in the
Mahabharatha,Hairvamsa or the
Bhagavatha. In later Puranas we find
stories of X’s divine origin and X’s
relation with Krishna. However from
the 2nd century the name of X seems
to be familiar with Prakrit authors and
is mentioned by various poets mostly
in erotic verses. X is famous all over
India only as Raseshwari,the central
figure of Rasa episodes.
Who is X?
Radha
 He is a Human / extra-dimensional
hybrid, armed with future technology
and Occupation: Defender of the the
15) Earth and the spaceways.Affiliations:
Agent of the World Government
Known Relatives: Dr. Om Swarup
(father, brilliant scientist); unnamed
mother; unnamed maternal
grandfather (ruler of the parasites
from the 13th Dimension)When a
metorite strike hits IO moon of jupiter
base, destroying the security system
keeping the prisoners contained,
some of the worst criminals in
mankind's history break loose. The
Earth Government charges it's top
law enforcer,X, with recapturing
them. X was the son of one of the
Earth's top scientists and the
grandson of the ruler of the parasites
from the 13th Dimension, a race of
beings 10 million years aheads of us
in civilization. He had been brought
CAPTAIN VYOM
V's wife's name was Buddhimati.V
was passionately attached to his wife.
He could not bear even a days
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separation from her. One day his wife
went to her father?s house without
informing her husband.V stealthily
went to see her at night at his father-
in-laws house. This produced a sense
of shame in Buddhimati. She said to
V, "My body is but a network of flesh
and bones. If you would develop for
the Lord even half the love that you
have for my filthy body, you would
certainly cross the ocean of Samsara
and attain immortality and eternal
bliss". These words pierced the heart
of V like an arrow. He did not stay
there even for a moment. He
abandoned home and became an
ascetic. He spent fourteen years in
visiting the various sacred places of
pilgrimage.He wrote many a famous
books praising the lord the most
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This place was once a vast lake. It
was converted into an alluvial plain
when a great Rishi V made an
opening into the surrounding
mountains. As a result the water of
the lake was drained out and the
submerged land became a habitable
place. It then came to be known as "V
Marga" the abode of V from which the
name of this place is derived.Id
place..
• KASHMIR AND KASHYAP
 Bloodstone is a 1988 released
hollywood movie starring Brett
Stimely and Anna Nicholas.The plot
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When an newlywed American couple
goes to India on their honeymoon,
little do they realize that they were
about to go on the adventure of their
life time. A ruby, back from the ages
of the Indian Maharajas has been
stolen and placed in the backpack of
the Americans. When the bad guys
realize this, they kidnap the wife..
Now the husband and his Indian
friend must go out to save the wife.
But along the way, they are
confronted with many challenges, like
the Indian bad guys who steal the
ruby from them.Id person who has
acted as the Indian Friend...by the
way this was is only foray into
hollywood
• RAJINIKANT
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Its referred to by many names such

as Narghilè in in Turkey,
Azerbaijan.Narghile derives from the
Turkish word narghile, meaning
coconut, which in turn is from the
Sanskrit word narikela , suggesting
that early ones were hewn from
coconut shells.Some of the other
names include hubble-bubble,hubbly-
bubbly,Lula, Ghelyoon etc
This was invented in India in the court
of the Mughal emperor Akbar.Hakim
Abul Fateh Gilani who was a physician
in the court of Mughal invented this in
order to protect his emperors
health.what???
• HOOKAH
 V was the seventh and the last Indian
20 Air Force POW of the 1965 Indo-Pak
War.When Ayub Khan learned that V
who is a Flight Lieutanant in the
Indian Air force was captured as a
POW, before the ceasefire was
announced, called up V's father &
offered to provide him with special
priveleges & release him after the
war as they had both served together
in the Royal Indian Army. But V,
kindly declined the offer & said "The
whole army is my son, & when 1000's
of my sons are held as POW's in
pakistan, I cannot accept any special
previleges for one."

who is V's father????

• GENERAL CARIAPPA
When I got the chance, I made amends with
my youth by making ______ __ _____. I had met
students, bandaged after the Mandal
Commission and spoke to them. They were
brutally butchered by the system. People ask
me why I killed off the boys in ______ ___
_______ I say, 'Guys, you don't know what
Emergency was. I know.' The moment you
forget history, it will repeat itself.
• RAKESH OMPRAKASH MEHRA
X was accused of committing
"forgery" and "fraud" by
getting his name entered in
official revenue records as the
legitimate allottee of some
2.75 bighas of land (about
70,000 sq ft) at Daulatpur
village in _____ district, about
40 km from Lucknow. While
the entry in the land records of
Daulatpur was shown to have
been made way back in 1983,
state revenue officials later
found it to have been forged
when Mulayam Singh was in
power. Mayawati's new
government followed the
matter with alacrity and
ordering probes to be
completed 'within 24
hours'.What's the hungama
Amitabh Bachchan – Barabanki land
issue
 ) The ______ tree(or Saraca indica L. ) is a flowering tree
considered sacred throughout India and Sri Lanka where it is
found. One of its varieties is a very handsome, small, erect
evergreen tree, with deep green foliage. It is prized for its
beautiful foliage and flowers. The Buddha is said to have been
born under this tree in Lumbini, and Mahavira to have
renounced the world under the tree in Vaishali. The Hindus
regard it as sacred, being dedicated to Kama, god of love, who
included an ______ blossom among the five flowers in his
quiver. The tree is sacred to the Hindus. There are numerous
legends that revolve around the tree. One legend has it that
when Goddess Parvathi asked Lord Shiva about the importance
of the ________ tree, he replied that it is a wish-fulfilling tree.
The Goddess tested the tree by asking for a daughter and
immediately a beautiful girl appeared. Goddess Parvathi
named her ______sundari.
• ASHOKA TREE
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